Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.
Alan Paton
Internal resistance to apartheid
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare. Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government, coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions, were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid, which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994.
Nelson Mandela burns his passbook in 1960 as part of a civil disobedience campaign.
Painting depicting the Sharpeville Massacre
List of attacks attributed to MK in South Africa between 1980 and 1983.
Desmond Tutu makes a speech in Los Angeles, 1986